Department of Dance Studies
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Item A study of amateur groups’ re-interpretation of traditional dances in Ghana: Role on continuity and safeguarding(Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 2015) Awuah, E.The amateur dance category in Ghana has been a vibrant force in the performance of traditional Ghanaian dancing for over 20 years. Fluid in ideologies, they have been able to affect the paradigms of traditional dancing in Ghana so much that their activities cannot be overlooked. Even though they are mostly taunted as the ‘destroyers’ of traditional forms by some schools of thought, this category’s input is especially important as they have a direct influence on dance structures in Ghana through their re-interpretations of traditional dance forms. This paper seeks to identify some distinctive re-interpretative styles/patterns this category exerts on traditional dances and their effects on preservation of traditional dances in Ghana.Item Negotiating the Narrative Themes of Traditional Ghanaian Dance Forms within the Museum Context(2016) Awuah, E.B.As facilities for preserving tangible heritage, museums and galleries have partially opened up to the idea of merging intangible cultural heritage, such as dance, storytelling, and music, with their tangible collections. As lived heritage that serves as an emotional, spiritual and physical reflection of the people that created it, traditional dance can add to the socio-cultural understanding of tangible artefacts. This article discusses the possibilities and problems of using traditional dances from Ghana within the nouvelle musŽologie context (de Varine-Bohan, 1976), touching on the functionality of museum spaces, ownership, and interpretability of artefacts in relationship to the embedded narratives and contextual themes of the dances. It considers the practical implications of the thematic synergy between dance and artefacts and explores the potential uses of Ôneo-traditionalÕ dance genres in GhanaÕs museums.Item Understanding African Dance in Context: Perspectives from Ghana(2017) Kuwor, S.K.